Claudette Colvin, a civil rights activist who was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a White woman in segregated Alabama, has died, according to her foundation. She was 86.

Fu arrestata nel 1955 in Alabama per aver violato le leggi sulla segregazione razziale su un autobus (ANSA)

Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person months before the famous case of Rosa Parks.